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|image = Calacanthus grandiflorus (3976339219).jpg<br />
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|status = NT<br />
|status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
|status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Watve, A. |year=2022 |title=''Calacanthus grandiflorus'' |volume=2022 |article-number=e.T219675453A219675779 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T219675453A219675779.en |access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref><br />
|taxon = Calacanthus grandiflorus<br />
|parent_authority = [[Thomas Anderson (botanist)|T.Anderson]] ex [[Benth.]] (1876)<br />
|authority = ([[Nicol Alexander Dalzell|Dalzell]]) [[Radlk.]] (1884 publ. 1883)<br />
|synonyms = ''Calacanthus dalzellianus'' {{small|T.Anderson ex Benth. & [[Hook.f.]] (1876)}}, nom. illeg.<br /><br />
''Lepidagathis grandiflora'' {{small|Dalzell (1850)}}<br />
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Calacanthus grandiflorus'' (Dalzell) Radlk. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:46706-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=6 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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'''''Calacanthus''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Acanthaceae]]. It contains a single species, '''''Calacanthus grandiflorus'''''.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Calacanthus'' T.Anderson ex Benth. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:438-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is [[endemic]] to the [[Western Ghats]] of western [[India]], in the states Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka. It typically grows on moist sunny slopes, including in clumps near streams and on ridge tops, along forest edges, and in shrublands, from 550 to 1,000 metres elevation.<ref name = iucn/><br />
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